People & Leadership · Future of Work

DualCareer: Whose Career Leads, and How Do We Sequence?

Dual-career couples build an explicit 5-year sequencing framework — who leads when, for how long, with what compensation — so neither career silently subsidises the other. Four coached rounds: honest accounting, 5-year projection, model choice, conversation script.

4 rounds Executive English, Español
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Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Over the last 5 years, my career led (%)
  • Compensation gap between careers (%)
  • Identity cost on the trailing partner
  • Foreseeable events in the next 5 years (select all that apply)
  • Kids (planning, arrival, school transitions)
  • Aging parent health change
  • Geographic move decision
  • Major career step for me
  • Major career step for partner
  • Who is more likely to lead across these events?

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Future of Work.

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